What is your favorite way to fry squash blossoms?

Question

I just had a bunch for lunch while I'm waiting for the watermellon to chill. I like to pick th blossoms in the morning when they have opened, dip them in egg white mixed with a little milk and then coat them with a mixture of equal parts bread crumbs and wheat germ to twice as much flour, seasoned with salt, pepper and garlic powder. Then I fry them in a pan in hot corn oil.

On occasion I pick the unopened flowers, dip them in beer batter and deep-fry, but I don't like those as well.

Answer 1

Both recipes sound scrumptous.  I'd add a little cayenne pepper to the first recipe, but that's just me.

Answer 2

Yum!

Answer 3

You can stuff them with an herb and goat cheese mixture as well.  Squash blossoms are always a treat!

Answer 4

I am a former chef and have done it the way you do them myself, and stuffed them with a mushroom duxelle or veal foremeat, just trim out the stamins and stigmas first they can be bitter.